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Peter writes ….. Well, the journey into the Med went reasonably well although we did travel a total of nearly 1200 miles to get to Gibraltar albeit that the direct line is about 950 miles. Our longest tack was about 230 miles!!! I have to thank John and Steve very much for their company and help along the way. We have travelled several hundred miles into the Mediterranean now and are currently on the SW of ...

... Renee, and it was great to have a coffee and share travel tales. Bilbao – Roma – Cagliari. Here we are in Sardegna. Much to the horror of our boys and the driver we have picked up the biggest 9 seater bongo van in existence (without power steering I might add). It will be very much like a 60's experience of cruising around this beach clad island in a volkswagon ! !

We farewelled Montenegro and its beautiful land full of c-r-a-z-y drivers today. The drivers in the black Mercs were the worst of all, aggressive and taking the worst of the most unbelievable chances. We handed the Corolla back to the rental car mob - unscathed Paul was quick to point out to them (around 6.8 litres/100 km). He made the rental car woman laugh as he used words and gestures describing how we found Montenegrin drivers. ...

We were dragging................so up it comes and down it goes again. This lasted for another night and then the wind came up and away we went again, dragging! It seems that the mud was only a layer, possibly over rock and very bad holding. The wind built and the sea picked up so we set off to hunt down a better spot. Finding a nice sandy bay on the ...

... Plus" and "Hai Mei Gui", as well as Matador. All three yachts are heading west and to the Caribbean as well............... it's beginning to look as though we have a convoy!

The weather is not hot, 30 degrees tops, it is windy, we've had rain at night, water temp is about 23 degrees and we are finding Sardinia to be an indifferent sort of a place. Well at least this corner is. ...